Synopses & Reviews
In her seaside cottage, Beatrix Abberley bravely confronts an intruder moments before her life is brutally taken. The crime stuns the elderly spinster's family especially Beatrix's niece, Charlotte Ladram. But Charlotte has little time to mourn the loss of her beloved aunt and little patience when police quickly arrest a man Charlotte believes is innocent. For Charlotte, a harrowing quest for answers begins one that will take her into the shadows of the past
and into the life and secrets of the dead woman's brother, famed poet and casualty of the Spanish Civil War, Tristram Abberley.
Now, amid shattering revelations about her family, and in the aftermath of a second savage crime, Charlotte finds herself at the center of a widening storm. And for Charlotte, something extraordinary is beginning to happen. As fifty years of secrets begin to unravel, shy, cautious Charlotte is coming alive in the shadow of a mystery uncovering a shocking tale of wartime greed and treachery, and a vendetta of violence seemingly without end.
Review
"[C]leverly executed and entirely satisfying, right up to the last line." Washington Post Book World
Synopsis
A compelling tale of murder, family mystery and literary scandal. Now in trade paperback, Hand in Glove in hardcover was cheered by the Washington Post Book World as "cleverly executed and entirely satisfying, right up to the last line".
About the Author
Robert Goddard graduated from Cambridge University and worked as an educational administrator before becoming a full-time novelist. The author of sixteen bestselling novels, including Borrowed Time and Into the Blue, which Delta will publish in Spring 2006, and In Pale Battalions and Sight Unseen, which will be forthcoming from Delta, Goddard lives in England, where he is at work on his next novel.